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I get a daily email from an Aussie Seniors' site. Today they have an article about cramps ~

http://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/news/coping-with-cramps

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Keep the curry, hysteria I can do. :-D ;-)

Think I stumbled across a remedy last night.
We 4 "girls" in Menorca, plus a Menorquine friend went out for a curry.......a new innovation where we live. ;-)
We spent 3 hours laughing hysterically & exchanging insults, mostly about our age-related shortcomings & the only alcohol consumed was the youngest who had half a pint of shandy. Honestly!!
Not one of us had cramp last night.
Don´t know if it was the curry or the hysteria that did it, but will be trying it again. ;-) ;-)

Just back from shopping and have stocked up on several
items to try them out, not all at once mind. :-D

Emma

fred you should take quinine daily that way the are in your system, I don't have probs with them.

I use Quinine tablets too ,but i only take one if i get bad cramp ,i don't think you are supposed to take a tablet daily,but either way they are very effective ,i have no side effects ,even with heart problems and diabetes .Fred. :-)

I don't think it stops it happening but it does undo it when you have it.

Just heard today that common salt can put a stop to night cramp and Sharron has beaten me to it. Prepared to give it a try and anything else that would put an end to the excruciating pain that muscle cramp causes. It isn't just through the early hours but lasts with aching thigh/leg muscles for a couple of day afterwards.

I hope your painful condition improves with the different remedies on here Emma.

Thanks everyone for contributing to my thread.

I hope that some advice given by you can help others.

Emma :-)

the doctor gave me quinine tabs the do work up to a point only get it now and again.

Hi peeps. I have suffered with cramp in both my calves for years. When i am in bed, if i stretch and point my toes, then Ive had it. The muscle locks solid and i cry with pain.

After it eventually unlocks itself, the calf is tender for 2 days and quite often i will have to walk on tip toes as i cant put my whole foot flat down.

My Grandma always reccomended bitter lemon as this had quinnine and of course banana but for me they dont help.

I just try to sleep with both legs bent or as someone else suggested, my right leg hanging out of bed loosely.

My doctor said once it was lack of salt!

I guess it's just one of those things we can't really cure but wish we could!!

Florence
In the hebrides.

One night when I was 7 months pregnant, i got cramp so bad, the moans i made woke up my hubby who thought i was in labour lol. When i said it was cramp, he said "oh is that all" :-)

This is not a remedy but, keep some salt by you and, when you get cramp, you tip some in your palm and lick it off.

The cramp will be gone before the salt.

I think it is because the taste of the salt distracts you enough for you to let go of the muscle.

It really does work.

Thank you Elizabeth with :-)

Emma

doc just said fruit- I have had a couple of satsumas & something else like a banana or a kiwi - a useful chunk of your five-a-day!

Maureen I love dates but have not eaten them
in ages, will give it a go. By the time I try all
these things out I'll need a bank loan. :-D

Wisechild you are all young things and you did
make me laugh out loud. :-D :-D

We are 4 friends all in our mid 60s, the Golden Girls of Menorca & we all suffer from cramp in our legs & feet, no matter what remedies we try.
We have reluctantly come to the conclusion it´s an age thing (although of course, we are far to young for it to apply to us. ;-)

Emma,

I had terrible cramp in my legs always when in bed at night. I went on google some time ago and it was suggested that Dates which have potassium in them might help.
I eat a few each day and have done for about 8 months they seem to have done the trick. I'm afraid bananas had no effect at all.

Kind regards
Maureen

Dizzi you have my sympathy, I dread it
especially in my ankles and calfs, toes
I can handle as I just put my bare foot on tiled surface.

Emma

I GET CRAMPS NEARLY EVERY NIGHT
AND IT IS SO PAINFULL,I GET IT IN MY CALFS
TOES SOLES OF MY FEET,AND LATLEY MY
FINGERS GET CRAMP LOCKED AND CAN
LAST FOR AGES AND ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO
UN LOCK THEM

Gently Bently.....don't draw blood lol :-D